Three nights left in Portugal

Coimbra is a lovely city with lots of history, an historic university and very good food. There is also Coninbraga outside of town that is a Roman settlement with mosaics, etc. I spent two nights in Coimbra and wished for a third.
You could also spend a couple of nights there then a night in Alcobaça or some other small town which would enable you to see the church there, or possibly Batalha or Obidos. Both Alcobaça and Batalha are great historic sites.
And, lastly, Tomar is another great city with a Knights of Templar church that’s pretty amazing. Then you could end up in Lisbon for your flight home. There is a lot to see in central Portugal so you might want to check these places as a starting point.
And, the Portuguese think Brazilian Português sounds funny😏.

Thanks KathrynJ!!

I imagine we all sound funny to each other, but got along fine during our two weeks in Portugal a couple of years ago :-)

Several people in Portugal told me they did not have any trouble understanding Brasilians, but Brasilians had trouble understanding them. There are over 500,000 Brasilians living in Portugal, so I imagine they get along all right

" I speak Brasilian Portuguese, so language is not a big issue, except the Portugues speak it a little funny :-)"

Yes, portuguese speacks portuguese a little funny. It's our language, why not make fun of it??? Like English, for instance! They speack english a litlle funny, diferent from american english!!! Very funny, indeed. The only problem is that brasilian portuguese does not exist. As Angolan portuguese, or Cape Verte portuguese, or Mozambican portuguese, or Indian portuguese, or Timors portuguese... those languajes just do not exist. So I think that you, and yours "brasilian portuguese" will be in a lot of trouble trying to get understood, or even more, trying to understand funny portuguese language. You should try English - much easier, and everybody in Portugal speacks it. Oh, by the way, and Castellano - we all speack Spanish. Maybe not the mexican spanish, but the Spain spanish (the funny spanish), we all do.

Have a nice time...

Helena,

I did not have a problem understanding Portugués in Portugal during 2015, or in being understood, but thank you for your advice.

It was also my language when growing up and going to school in Brasil. There we made fun of the accents from some regions of the country, and from how caipiras spoke.

I understand and did not intend to offend

Not sure what your Portugal plans consist of but for your 3 extra nights at the end spending those on the Algarve Coast sounds good to me. Stay in Lagos or a smaller town along the coast and you can fly out of Faro direct to Gatwick.

Thank you for your sugestion myreynolds.

We spent several nights in Lagos on our last trip, and enjoyed it a lot. We spend a day going to Sagres, and having gone to school in Brasil it was very meaningful to me to see a site I had studied in history class. Had a nice, long lunch in Salema on the way back to Lagos.

I think we may well end up going to Coimbra. I wanted to see it on our last trip, but time ran out. We'll see and we will certainly let everyone know.